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Fillings are the restorative material
that replaces tooth substance that has been lost through decay or
other damage. For the last 150 years amalgam, a blend of silver,
tin and mercury, has been the most commonly used material for the
restoration of back teeth.
Tooth
colourerd fillings could not be used until relatively recently except
in front teeth and even then they lasted only a short time and did
not match the teeth accurately.
Happily,
advances in the science of dental materials has enabled enormous
improvements in recent years and now, in the vast majority of cases,
strong reliable tooth coloured fillings are able to be placed anywhere
in the mouth so that the teeth appear unfilled.
Many
people wish for their old black amalgam fillings to be changed to
tooth coloured fillings for a vastly improved cosmetic appearence
and to eliminate mercury from their mouth due to the strong health
concerns that many have reported with this heavy metal.
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Old
amalgam fillings can be removed
and
replaced with cosmestically appealing tooth coloured fillings
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Our
principal John Osborne has particular experience and interest in
the areas of replacing amalgam fillings and has not used mercury
or any other metal filling since 1981. He regularly attends update
courses with lecturers from all over the world to ensure patients
benefit from the very latest techniques in modern dentistry. Recently
John has produced a training video for other dentists in the use
of amalgam free techniques.
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